Editions

König, Thomas, George Tsebelis and Marc Debus (Eds.) (2010): Reform Processes and Policy Change: Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies. New York:Springer.[Studies in Public Choice]more

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Who takes the parliamentary floor? The role of gender in speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag. Political Research Quarterly, 67, issue 3, pp. 504-518.more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2013): The programmatic development of CDU and CSU since reunification: Incentives and constraints for changing policy positions in the German multi-level system. German Politics, 22, issue 1-2, pp. 151-171.more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Government Formation After the 2009 Federal Election: The Remake of the Christian–Liberal Coalition Under New Patterns of Party Competition. German Politics, 20, issue 1, pp. 164-185.more

Debus, Marc (2011): Portfolio allocation and policy compromises: How and why the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government. The Political Quarterly, 82, issue 2, pp. 293-304.more

Debus, Marc (2008): Unfulfilled Promises? German Social Democrats and their Policy Positions at Federal and State Level between 1994 and 2006. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 18, issue 2, pp. 201-224.more

Debus, Marc, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Hartmut Wessler (2015): On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos. Pp. 211-225 in:Janina Wildfeuer (Ed.) Building Bridges for Multimodal Research: International Perspectives on Theories and Practices of Multimodal Analysis.Frankfurt am Main:Peter Lang.more

Tosun, Jale, and Marc Debus (2007): Adjusting to the European Union: What are the effects of European integration on party and government policy positions?. Pp. 429-465 in:Morten Egeberg (Ed.) Institutional Dynamics and the Transformation of Executive Politics in Europe.Mannheim.more

Papers / Reports

Web Publications

Gross, Martin, and Marc Debus (2015): Local politicians take the party affiliation of directly elected mayors into account when forming coalitions, Democratic Audit UK, http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=14998more

Conference Presentations

Bäck, Hanna, and Marc Debus (2016): Representing the Region on the Floor Electoral Districts, Economic Characteristics, and Speechmaking in the German Bundestag. [Parliaments in Challenging Times. 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, München, June 30th to July 02nd, 2016]more

Bäck, Hanna, and Marc Debus (2016): When do Women Speak? A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Gender in Legislative Debates. [Parliaments in Challenging Times. 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, München, June 30th to July 02nd, 2016]more

Debus, Marc, and Martin E. Hansen (2016): Party competition, election manifestos and roll call votes in the formation process of a parliamentary democracy: Evidence from Weimar Germany. [Parliaments in Challenging Times. 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, München, June 30th to July 02nd, 2016]more

Gross, Martin, and Marc Debus (2016): EU regional policy and the support for European integration among political parties. [MZES-Workshop "Vices and Virtues of Decentralization: Challenges in European multi-level Democracies", MZES, Mannheim, November 25th to November 26th, 2016]more

Debus, Marc, Jale Tosun and Marcel Maxeiner (2015): Parties and their positions on entrepreneurship over time: Does the historical legacy of a political system matter or is economic problem pressure the decisive factor?. [SASE 27th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, July 14th, 2015]more

Schäfer, Constantin, and Marc Debus (2015): Euroscepticism, Policy Alienation and Abstention in the 2014 EP Elections. [Conference "The 2014 European Parliament Elections in Perspective: European Elections Studies 1979-2014", MZES, Mannheim, November 06th to November 08th, 2015]more

Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Campaigning in the House: The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014]more

Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Campaigning in the House: The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. [8th ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, September 03rd to September 06th, 2014]more

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jale Tosun (2014): Partisanship, Ministers and Environmental Policy Outputs: A Comparative Analysis of Biotechnology Regulation in the EU Countries. [Meeting of the Analytical Politics Section of the German Political Science Association, Budapest, May 23rd to May 24th, 2014]more

Debus, Marc, and Martin Gross (2014): Institutional Constraints, Party Policy Conflict and Coalition Formation in Multilevel Systems: Evidence from the German Local Level. [Swiss Political Science Association Annual Convention, Universität Bern, January 30th to January 31st, 2014]more

Debus, Marc, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Hartmut Wessler (2014): On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos. [First Bremen Conference on Multimodality "Bridging the Gap between Here and There: Combining Multimodal Analysis from International Perspectives", University of Bremen, September 10th to September 13th, 2014]more

Klingelhöfer, Tristan, Jochen Müller and Marc Debus (2014): Scrutinizing the Assumption of Consistency Benefits in Research on Multi-Level Party Politics.. [21st International Conference of Europeanists, Washington D.C., March 14th to March 16th, 2014]more

Williams, Laron K., Mary Stegmaier and Marc Debus (2014): The Dynamics of German Party Support. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014]more

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Who is allowed to take the floor? Individual and party-level determinants of the number of legislative speeches delivered by Swedish MPs. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, March 25th to March 27th, 2013]more

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Who is allowed to take the floor? The role of saliency and gender when explaining speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag. [71st National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 11th to April 14th, 2013]more

Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Giving Signals in Parliamentary Speeches: An Analysis of the Debates on Abortion Legislation in Ireland 2001 and 2013. [7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013]more

Gross, Martin, and Marc Debus (2013): Institutional Constraints, Party Policy Conflict and Coalition Formation at the Local Level: Evidence from 29 German Cities. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013]more

Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2012): Battle over bases: German military reform between partisan interests and economic constraints. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, June 21st to June 23rd, 2012]more

Bräuninger, Thomas, and Marc Debus (2011): The policy agenda of political parties in multi-level systems: Do German parties differ in their programmatic profile between the state and federal level?. [6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 24th to August 28th, 2011]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Coalition preferences of voters and government formation in European multi-level systems: Evidence from Germany. [6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 25th to August 27th, 2011]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): The programmatic development of CDU and CSU since reunification: Incentives and constraints for changing policy positions in the German multi-level system. [The CDU: Continuities, Challenges and Changes, Birmingham, June 24th, 2011]more

Debus, Marc, Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun (2011): Why should gay couples pay more? An analysis of fees for same-sex unions in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. [6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 25th to August 27th, 2011]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Why Voters like some Coalitions and dislike Others: Evidence from the German Multilevel System. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Dublin, June 16th to June 18th, 2011]more

Müller, Jochen, and Marc Debus (2011): The 'Second-orderness’ of Voting Behaviour in State Elections: Evidence from the German Multi-level System. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, September 01st to September 04th, 2011]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Assessing the implications of policy positions on the sub-national level: Evidence from nine European countries. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, March 29th to April 01st, 2010]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Assessing the implications of policy preferences of political parties on the sub-national level: Evidence from nine European countries. [68th National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 22nd to April 25th, 2010]more

Debus, Marc (2010): Portfolio Allocation and Policy Compromises: How the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government. [Konferenz "The Coalition Government in the UK in Comparative Perspective", University of Sussex, Brighton, October 22nd, 2010]more

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Regional Government Formation in Varying Multi-Level Contexts: A Comparison of Eight European Countries. [Towards a Regional Political Science, Edinburgh, June 23rd to June 25th, 2010]more

Debus, Marc, Hanna Bäck and Wolfgang C. Müller (2010): The Ideological Cohesion of Political Parties: An Evaluation of the Method of Deriving MPs’ Policy Positions from Parliamentary Speeches. [68th National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 22nd to April 25th, 2010]more

Debus, Marc, and Thomas Bräuninger (2009): Estimating Hand- and Computer-Coded Policy Positions of Political Actors Across Countries and Time. [67th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 02nd to April 05th, 2009]more

Debus, Marc (2009): Government formation in varying multi-level contexts: first results of a project on regional party competition in Europe. [Understanding Regional Democracy: Final seminar in the ESRC seminar series ‘Democracy after the Nation-State’, Florenz, June 17th to June 18th, 2009]more

Debus, Marc, Hanna Bäck and Henry Bäck (2009): Regional Government Formation in Varying Multi-Level Contexts: A Comparison of Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. [IPSA 2009 World Congress of Political Science, Santiago de Chile, July 12th to July 16th, 2009]more

Debus, Marc, Hanna Bäck and Wolfgang C. Müller (2009): The Ideological Cohesion of Political Parties: An Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches in Austria and Germany. [ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10th to September 12th, 2009]more

Müller, Wolfgang C., Hanna Bäck and Marc Debus (2009): The Ideological Cohesion of Political Parties. An Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches in Austria and Germany. [ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10th to September 12th, 2009]more

Bäck, Hanna, Patrick Dumont and Marc Debus (2008): Who Gets What in Coalition Governments? Predictors of Portfolio Allocation in Parliamentary Democracies. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., August 28th to August 31st, 2008]more

Debus, Marc (2008): The Impact of Pre-Electoral Alliances and Coalition Rejections on Government Formation. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., August 28th to August 31st, 2008]more